WO2012025060A1 - Terminal and method for displaying message list on terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided in embodiments of the present invention are a terminal and a display method for a terminal message list. The method comprises: the terminal acquiring a trigger for the message list to be displayed; on the basis of a preset height as a minimum, the terminal calculating the height to be occupied by each message on a screen of the terminal, no height occupied by any message exceeding the preset height, and the preset height being less than the height of the screen; the height occupied by each message being sufficient for at least two lines of the content to be displayed; and the terminal displaying the message list. In embodiments of the present invention, when displaying the message list, the terminal can display at once not only a plurality of messages, but also the contents of the messages, thereby allowing a user to view at once on the screen the contents of a plurality of messages.

Description

 The method and the terminal for displaying the message list on the terminal are submitted to the Chinese Patent Office on August 26, 2010, and the application number is CN201010268776. 3. The Chinese patent application titled "display method and terminal of the message list on the terminal" Priority is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to display technologies of terminals, and in particular, to a method and a terminal for displaying a message list on a terminal.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Sending and receiving messages (Message) is a basic function of a terminal. Before the terminal displays the message, the message list is generally displayed, and the user using the terminal views the message through the message list.

 For example, from the user's point of view, the user needs to open the inbox before viewing the message; after opening the inbox, the user will see the message list, and the message list generally uses the user name or number as the identifier of the message. After the user triggers a username or number, he or she will see the message sent by the username or number. From the perspective of the terminal, the terminal displays a message list after obtaining the trigger of the user opening the inbox; the terminal displays the message after obtaining the trigger of the user for a certain message.

 As another example, some terminals do not store and display a list of messages in the form of an inbox, but instead store and display a list of messages in the form of a Conversation. A session displays a list of messages consisting of all messages sent by the same username or number, with most or all of the content of each message displayed. As shown in Figure 1, the terminal displays a list of messages consisting of messages sent with the number "10658000". After obtaining the trigger of a session by the user, the terminal displays a message list consisting of all messages sent by a certain user name or number; after the terminal obtains the trigger of a message by the user, the terminal displays the message in full screen.

After carefully studying the prior art, the inventor found that when the terminal displays the message list in the form of an inbox, the terminal generally only displays the user name or number of the message to be sent, and at most displays the content of a small number of messages, which is generally not displayed. The entire content of the message. In this case, the user cannot know the entire content of each message through the message list. When the terminal displays the message list in the form of a session, the terminal can display the content of the message, but if a message is displayed on the display screen. If there is too much content, the number of messages displayed on the display will be too small. In this case, the user cannot browse the contents of multiple messages at the same time through the display, bringing subsequent operations such as overview, search, and deletion of the message. inconvenient. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a terminal for displaying a message list on a terminal, so that when the terminal displays a message list, the display screen simultaneously displays the contents of multiple messages, so that the user simultaneously browses the contents of multiple messages through the display screen.

 A method for displaying a message list on a terminal, comprising:

 The terminal obtains a trigger to display a list of messages;

 The terminal calculates, according to the preset height, the height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen of the terminal, and the height occupied by each message on the display screen of the terminal does not exceed a preset height, The preset height is smaller than the height of the display screen; the height occupied by each message on the display screen can display at least two lines of content;

 The terminal displays the list of messages.

 A terminal, comprising:

 An obtaining unit, configured to obtain a trigger for displaying a list of messages;

 a processing unit, configured to: when the obtaining unit obtains a trigger of the message list display message list, calculate, according to at least a preset height, a height occupied by each message in the message list on a display screen of the terminal; the each message is at the terminal The height occupied by the display screen does not exceed the preset height; the preset height is smaller than the height of the display screen; the height occupied by each message on the display screen can display at least two lines of content;

 A display screen for displaying the list of messages.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, since the height of each message on the display screen can display at least two lines of content, when viewing the message list, the user can generally understand the content of the message through the displayed content. The purpose of browsing a plurality of message contents through the display screen at the same time, so that the user decides how to operate the message, improves the operation efficiency of the user for browsing, searching, deleting, and the like.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below, and obviously, in the following description The drawings are only some of the embodiments of the present invention, and those skilled in the art can obtain other drawings based on these drawings without any creative work.

 1 is a schematic diagram of a terminal display message list displayed by a terminal in the prior art;

2 is a schematic diagram showing the height and length of a display screen of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a first embodiment of a method for displaying a message list on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a second embodiment of a method for displaying a message list on a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. A schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. example. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

 Before introducing the embodiments of the present invention, the expertise involved in the embodiments of the present invention will be first introduced.

 The message in the embodiment of the present invention can be classified into at least two types: a short message (SM) and a multimedia message service (MMS). The content of short messages is generally text content. The content of the MMS message can include not only text content, but also pictures, videos, audio, animations, and the like. Whether it is a short message or an MMS message, if there is more content of the message, the message can be displayed in the form of a page on the display of the terminal.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal may store and display the message list in the form of a mailbox, or may store and display the message list in the form of a session. The message list can be a message list composed of messages received by the terminal. In this case, the mailbox can be called an inbox. The message list can also be a message list composed of messages sent by the terminal. In this case, the mailbox can be called an outbox. The message list can also be a list of messages that the terminal edits and does not send (also known as drafts), in which case the mailbox can be called a draft box.

 In existing terminals, messages in a message list are generally displayed on the display screen in a vertical direction. For example, if the terminal stores and displays a message list in the form of a mailbox, the user name or number in the message list is displayed in the vertical direction in the order of processing (receiving, sending, or editing) of the message, and each user name or number represents one. Message. As another example, if the terminal stores and displays a message list in the form of a session, the message content in the message list is displayed in the vertical direction in the order in which the messages are processed (received, sent, or edited).

The terminal in the embodiment of the present invention may refer to a mobile phone (which may also be referred to as a mobile phone). In the embodiment of the present invention, the height of the display screen of the terminal refers to the length of the display screen in the vertical direction. In contrast, the length of the display screen in the horizontal direction may be referred to as the width of the display screen. As shown in Figure 2, "H" indicates the height of the display, and "W" indicates the display. The width. A method of displaying a message list on the terminal of the present invention will be described below. As shown in Figure 3, this method includes:

 S301: The terminal obtains a trigger for displaying a list of messages.

 If divided from the perspective of the input mode, the terminal can be divided into a keyboard terminal and a touch terminal.

 The user who uses the keyboard terminal can operate the terminal by operating the keyboard, and the terminal provides the corresponding function after obtaining the trigger of the user to the keyboard. If the user triggers the terminal to display the message list by operating the keyboard, the terminal obtains the trigger of the user to display the message list by operating the keyboard.

 The user using the touch terminal can operate the terminal by clicking a touch screen with a finger or a touch pen, and the terminal provides a corresponding function after obtaining the trigger of the user on the touch screen. If the user clicks the touch screen by a finger or a touch pen to trigger the terminal to display the message list, the terminal obtains a trigger for the user to click on the touch screen by a finger or a touch pen to display the list of messages.

 If the terminal stores and displays a list of messages in the form of a mailbox, the user can trigger the terminal to open the mailbox, so that the terminal obtains a trigger to open the mailbox. If the terminal stores and displays a list of messages in the form of a session, the user can trigger the terminal to open a session, so that the terminal gets a trigger to open a session.

 S302: The terminal calculates, according to the preset height, the height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen of the terminal, and the height occupied by each message on the display screen of the terminal does not exceed a preset height. The preset height is smaller than the height of the display screen; the height occupied by each message on the display screen can display at least two lines of content.

 After the terminal obtains the trigger to display the message list, the terminal can display the message list. Any one of the messages in the message list may be a short message SM or a multimedia message service MMS message. The message list may be a message list composed of messages received by the terminal, a message list composed of messages sent by the terminal, or a message list composed of messages edited by the terminal and not sent.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a height may be set in advance, which is smaller than the height of the display screen. Each message in the message list does not occupy more than the preset height on the display, so that when the display message list is displayed, at least two messages can be displayed at the same time, wherein one of the two messages It may not be completely displayed on the display. For example, the upper one of the two adjacent messages occupies 80% of the height of the display, and the next occupied height is 80% of the height of the display, but when the previous one is When the display is displayed at 80% of the display height, the next content that will occupy 20% of the display height is displayed on the display. The remaining content that occupies 60% of the display height requires the user to press the down arrow key or drag. Scroll the slider in the vertical direction of the message list to move it into the display The screen is displayed. When the user presses the down arrow key to activate the next message, the activated message is displayed according to the height it occupies on the display (ie, the height of the display screen is 80%). Of course, if the height of each message in the message list is set on the display, the more the number of messages displayed simultaneously when the display shows the message list.

 The "Activate" message in the embodiment of the present invention refers to making the message in a valid state, for example, highlighting the message in a different color background, reverse color or small animation.

 The terminal calculates the height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen of the terminal according to at least the preset height. The height occupied by each message on the display screen of the terminal may be all equal by default, but each message is The height occupied by the display on the terminal does not exceed the preset height.

 For the mailbox display mode, the method of calculating may be calculated according to a preset height and an activation state of the message, for example, the preset height is 40% of the display height, and each message is occupied on the display screen. In the case where the heights are all equal, the height occupied by each message on the display screen may be 1/2 of the preset height (ie 20% of the display height), and for the activated message, it is occupied on the display screen. The height is expanded to a preset height (ie 40% of the display height), for messages that are not activated, the height is kept at 1/2 of the preset height, thereby obtaining a message list that can be displayed On-screen displays 4 messages (including one activated message) or 5 unactivated messages.

 For a message list mixed with SM and MMS messages, the calculation method may be calculated according to a preset height and a type of message. For example, if the preset height is 40% of the display height, then the SM is displayed. The height occupied by the screen may be 1/2 of the preset height (ie 20% of the display height), and the height occupied by the MMS message on the display screen may be the preset height (ie, the height of the display screen) 40%).

 For the sake of understanding, only two examples are given. However, according to the enlightenment of the embodiment of the present invention, the influence parameter and the specific calculation process for calculating the occupation height of each message on the display screen can be set according to actual needs. In the embodiment of the present invention, the height of each message on the display screen is not limited.

 S303: The terminal displays the message list.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, each message in the message list may occupy the same height on the display screen. In this case, after the terminal obtains the trigger of displaying the message list, the height occupied by each message on the display screen can be calculated according to the preset height, and then occupied according to the height of the display screen and each message on the display screen. Height, calculates the first number of messages displayed simultaneously on the display. In this case, when the terminal displays the message list, the display simultaneously displays the first number of messages described above.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen of the terminal may also be It's exactly the same. In this case, after the terminal obtains the trigger of displaying the message list, the terminal can calculate the height occupied by the multiple messages in the message list on the display screen according to the preset height, and then, according to the height of the display screen and the plurality of messages mentioned above. The height of each message on the display, calculating the second number of messages displayed simultaneously on the display. In this case, when the terminal displays the message list, the display simultaneously displays the second number of messages.

 When the terminal obtains the trigger for displaying the message list, the terminal may obtain the trigger for opening the mailbox, and step S303 may specifically be: the terminal displays the message list in the form of a mailbox.

 When the terminal obtains the trigger for displaying the message list, the terminal obtains a trigger for opening a session, and step S303 may be: the terminal displays the message list in the form of a session.

 Since each message can display at least two lines of content on the display screen, when the user views the message list, the user can roughly understand what the message is about by displaying the displayed content, and realize the display through the display. The purpose of the screen to view multiple message content at the same time, so that the user can decide whether to trigger the message for full-screen browsing, or delete the message that is not interested or careless for himself, and improve the browsing, searching, deleting, etc. of the message. Operational efficiency.

 So far, the display of the message list of the method of the embodiment of the present invention has been completed.

 As shown in FIG. 4, the method further includes step S304: after the terminal obtains activation of a message, the content of the message is displayed in a scrolling manner in a horizontal direction of the display screen.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal displays the message list to the user, the user may activate a certain message currently displayed, and then the terminal displays the content of the message in a scrolling manner in the horizontal direction of the display screen. The message can be automatically scrolled in the horizontal direction or horizontally scrolled by the user. The horizontal scrolling in the embodiment of the present invention is a basic unit of scrolling change displayed by the currently activated message in the message list. For example, if the currently activated message displays the first three lines of the message in the message list, When horizontal scrolling is performed, the content displayed after one horizontal scrolling is the fourth to sixth lines of the message (ie, the three lines of content are displayed as a page of the message in the message list), and the content displayed after two horizontal scrolling is performed. It is the seventh to nine lines of the message, and so on. If the terminal displays the message list to the user, each message can be dragged and controlled by the user in the horizontal direction, then the user can drag the message to be viewed in the horizontal direction, so that the terminal obtains the level at the display screen. Triggering of the scrolling of the above message in the direction. Optionally, when the message is activated, the page currently displayed by the message in the message list is the first page of the total number of pages of the message, and the current page number and the total number of pages are displayed, so that the user Browsing is more convenient.

After the terminal of S304 obtains the content of the message in the horizontal direction of the display screen after the activation of the message, the terminal may further include: the terminal adding a horizontal direction scroll on the activated message on the display screen. Indicating mark, when the terminal obtains a horizontal direction scrolling trigger, then performing the scrolling in the horizontal direction of the display screen The step of displaying the content of the message in an active form.

 The horizontal direction scrolling indicator may be a horizontal scrolling slider located at the top or bottom of the current activation message, and may be dragged; or may be left and right direction indicators, respectively located at the left and right ends of the current activation message or both Located at the left or right end of the current message, the scroll operation may be performed according to the touch of the touch pen or the finger, or the content of the message may be scrolled left/right according to the user pressing the left/right direction key.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, before the display screen scrolls the content of a certain message in the horizontal direction, the terminal may first determine the amount of information that the display screen displays the message at a time. Specifically, the terminal can calculate the amount of information displayed by the display screen at a time according to the height of the display screen, the width of the display screen, and the height occupied by the message on the display screen. After the terminal obtains a trigger for scrolling the message in the horizontal direction, the content of the message scrolls in the horizontal direction, and the display screen displays the content of the above calculated amount of information. If the terminal continues to obtain a trigger for scrolling of the message in the horizontal direction, the content of the message continues to scroll in the horizontal direction, and the display continues to display the content of the calculated amount of information. Of course, after each message is scrolled, the amount of information displayed on the display can be the same, but the displayed content can be different.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal obtains activation of a message, the function selection of processing the message may be added to the back end of the message on the display screen. For example, suppose the user drags a message in the horizontal direction of the display screen, and after displaying all the contents of the message, the terminal can display a function selection list, for example, including deletion, modification, reply, etc., when the user After a function is selected, the terminal provides the corresponding function after the user obtains a trigger for a certain function.

 It should be noted that if the message is an MMS message, the subject of the MMS message may be preferentially displayed when the list is displayed. If the content of the topic is not large, the content of the first page of the MMS message may be displayed again. The content on the first page is, for example, text, pictures (the pictures can be reduced according to a preset ratio), and the like. After each MMS message is scrolled in the horizontal direction, the display can display the contents of a certain page of the MMS message. In this case, the amount of information of a certain page of an MMS message is the amount of information that the display screen displays the MMS message at a time.

By displaying the content of the activated message in a scrolling manner in the horizontal direction of the display screen, the terminal can make the user know the content of the message as much as possible in the message list without triggering the full-screen display message; by adding the horizontal direction scrolling indication mark, Having the user read the activated message more arbitrarily, further improving the browsing efficiency of the message; by adding a function selection at the back end of the message backend message, the user can quickly operate the activated message, and improve the The operation and management efficiency of the message. Corresponding to the foregoing method embodiments, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal. As shown in Figure 5, this terminal package Includes:

 The obtaining unit 10 is configured to obtain a trigger for displaying a list of messages;

 The processing unit 20 is configured to: when the obtaining unit 10 obtains the trigger of the message list display message list, calculate, according to at least a preset height, a height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen of the terminal; The height occupied on the display screen of the terminal does not exceed the preset height; the preset height is smaller than the height of the display screen; the height occupied by each message on the display screen can display at least two lines of content; The display screen 30 is used to display the message list.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, each message in the message list may occupy the same height on the display screen 30. In this case, the processing unit 20 may further include: a first calculating subunit, configured to calculate the display screen 30 according to the height of the display screen 30 and the height occupied by each message on the display screen 30 of the terminal. The first number of displayed messages, the display screen 30 is further configured to: simultaneously display the first number of messages.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, the height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen 30 may not be completely the same. In this case, the processing unit may further include: a second calculating subunit, configured to calculate, according to a height of the display screen 30 and a height occupied by each of the plurality of messages on the display screen 30 of the terminal The display screen 30 simultaneously displays the second number of messages; the display screen 30 is further configured to: simultaneously display the second number of messages.

 The display screen 30 can also be used to: display a message list in the form of a mailbox when the terminal obtains a trigger to open the mailbox; and display the message list in the form of a session when the terminal obtains a trigger to open a session.

 The obtaining unit 10 can also be configured to: obtain activation of a message; then the display screen 30 can also be used to: display the display in a horizontal direction in the horizontal direction when the obtaining unit 10 obtains activation of a message The content of the message.

 The processing unit preferably further includes: a tag attaching subunit, configured to display on the display screen 30 after the obtaining unit 10 obtains activation of a message, before the display screen 30 displays the content of the message in a scrolling manner in a horizontal direction. A horizontal direction scrolling indicator is attached to the activated message.

 In the embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable to further include a function item appending sub-unit for appending a function selection for processing the message on the display screen 30 on the back end of the message when the obtaining unit 10 obtains activation of a message.

The above-mentioned terminal embodiment is similar to the foregoing method embodiment. Therefore, the function and the mutual cooperation relationship of each unit in the foregoing terminal embodiment can be referred to the related description in the foregoing method embodiment, and details are not described herein again. . In summary, in the embodiment of the present invention, each message in the message list is occupied on the display screen of the terminal. The degree does not exceed the preset height, and the preset height is smaller than the height of the display screen, which ensures that the display screen can display multiple messages at the same time. At the same time, the content of the message is displayed in a scrolling manner in the horizontal direction of the display screen, ensuring that the display can display the content of the message. Therefore, when displaying the message list, the terminal can not only display multiple messages at the same time, but also display the content of the message, so that the user can simultaneously browse the contents of multiple messages through the display screen.

 A person skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the process of implementing the above embodiment method can be completed by a computer program to instruct related hardware, and the program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. In execution, the flow of an embodiment of the methods as described above may be included. The storage medium may be a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a read-only memory (ROM), or a random access memory (RAM).

 The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that those skilled in the art can also make several improvements and retouchings without departing from the principles of the present invention. It is considered as the scope of protection of the present invention.

Claims

Claim A method for displaying a message list on a terminal, comprising:  Get a trigger to display a list of messages;  Calculating a height occupied by each message in the message list on a display screen of the terminal, the height occupied by each message on the display screen of the terminal does not exceed a preset height, and the preset height is less than The height of the display screen; the height of each message on the display screen can display at least two lines of content;  The list of messages is displayed.  2. The method according to claim 1, wherein calculating the height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen of the terminal further comprises: performing calculation according to a preset height.  3. The method according to claim 1, wherein calculating the height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen of the terminal further comprises: calculating according to a preset height and an activation state of the message, or The calculation is based on the preset height and the type of message.  The method according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the method further comprises:  The number of messages simultaneously displayed on the display screen is calculated based on the height of the display screen and the height occupied by each message on the display screen of the terminal.  The method according to claim 1, 2, 3 or 4, wherein the method further comprises: after obtaining activation of a message in the message list, scrolling in a horizontal direction of the display screen The form displays the content of the message that is activated.  The method according to claim 5, further comprising: after obtaining the activation of a message, displaying the content of the message in a scrolling manner in a horizontal direction of the display screen, further comprising:  A horizontal direction scrolling indicator is added to the activated message on the display screen, and when the terminal obtains the horizontal direction scrolling trigger, the step of displaying the message content in a scrolling manner in the horizontal direction of the display screen is performed.  The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the obtaining the trigger to display the list of messages comprises: obtaining a trigger to open the mailbox or triggering to open a session.  The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein any one of the messages in the message list is a short message SM or a multimedia message service MMS message.  The method according to any one of claims 1-8, wherein the message list is a message list formed by the received message, a message list composed of the sent message, or an edited and unissued message. A list of messages that are composed. 10. The method according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that after obtaining activation of a message, the function selection of the message activated by the processing is additionally appended to the end of the message activated on the display screen, Function selection Includes: Delete, Modify, or Reply.  A terminal, comprising:  An obtaining unit, configured to obtain a trigger for displaying a list of messages;  a processing unit, configured to calculate a height occupied by each message in the message list on a display screen of the terminal; the height occupied by each message on the display screen of the terminal does not exceed a preset height; the preset The height is smaller than the height of the display screen; the height of each message on the display screen can display at least two lines of content; and the display screen is used to display the message list.  The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the processing unit specifically includes:  a first calculating subunit, configured to calculate, according to a preset height, a height occupied by each message in the message list on a display screen of the terminal,  a second calculating subunit, configured to calculate a height occupied by each message in the message list on the display screen of the terminal according to the preset height and the type of the message, or according to the preset height and the activation state of the message, And a calculating subunit, configured to calculate the number of messages simultaneously displayed by the display screen according to the height of the display screen and the height occupied by each message on the display screen of the terminal.  The terminal according to claim 11 or 12, characterized in that  The obtaining unit is further configured to: obtain activation of a message;  The display screen is further configured to: when the obtaining unit obtains activation of a message, display the content of the activated message in a scrolling manner in a horizontal direction.  The terminal according to claim 13, wherein the processing unit further comprises:  Marking an additional subunit, for adding a horizontal scrolling on the activated message on the display screen after the obtaining unit obtains activation of a message, before the display screen displays the content of the message in a horizontal direction in a scrolling manner Indicator mark.  The terminal according to any one of claims 11 to 14, wherein the display screen is further used for:  When the terminal obtains the trigger to open the mailbox, the message list is displayed in the form of a mailbox; or when the terminal obtains the trigger to open a session, the message list is displayed in the form of a session.  The terminal according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the processing unit further comprises: a function item attaching subunit, configured to: when the obtaining unit obtains activation of a message, the message on the display screen At the end, a function selection for processing the message is added, wherein the function selection includes: deleting, modifying or replying.